Web Fonts

[TheSponge]

Does anyone know how to use my own font on a web page? can I upload the font to the server, and then link to it somehow??

Thanks

 

[TheConeHead]

I believe it has to be on the machine in order to be used... you could make the text an image....

 

[tviman]

TheConeHead is right - web pages will only display fonts that reside on the users machine. That's why most web pages use either san-serif (Arial, Helvetica, Gill Sans, etc.) or serif (Times New Roman, CG Times, Tiempo, etc.) type fonts - 99.999999% of all PC's have one or both installed by default.

You could, as TheConeHead mentions, create images of your text and that's OK as long as it's something like a page title or header. It'll become a problem if you turn an entire page of text into a graphic image.

The other thing you can do is to give your users the option of downloading the font(s) on your site. I've seen this done a few times but my personal opinion is that it's a bad idea. Not many people will know, or take the time, to download and install a font. Besides, this takes them away from your site - something you really don't want to encourage.

There's always a better way. The fun is trying to find it!

 

[ChrisHirst]

You could try the WEFT from MS. It only works for IE though

http://www.microsoft.com/typography/web/embedding/weft3/default.htm

Chris.

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[clarkin]

Some good references:

http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/design/fonts/tutorials/tutorial3.html

and

http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/design/fonts/tutorials/tutorial2.html

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[ChrisHunt]

Like Chris says, you can embed fonts in a special file on your server, which then gets downloaded by browsers that understand it (which is basically just IE - but that's 80%+ of your visitors). If it's not critical that all visitors see the special font, embedding is by far the best way to do this.

See faq215-4042 and faq215-1525 for more information.

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[TheSponge]

Thankyou, all for your replies.

I will try a few of these, If not Ill just use thr regular fonts...

Thanks